The report, Digital Subscription and Download Media Merchandizing 2003 – 2015 chronicles the market’s remarkable ascent from a fledgling $271 million business in 2003, with forecasts carried out through 2015, accompanied by annual storefront, service and content category analytics.

Music download and streaming businesses combine to lead the total market with a 59.8% share, paced by Apple’s iTunes and Amazon stores.

Streaming subscription, song-play and radio services (including Pandora, Rhapsody, Slacker, Sony Music Unlimited, Spotify U.S. and others) produced 7% of music segment retail volume in 2012.

Movies and television captured a 38.3% share, led by Netflix, Hulu Plus and iTunes Video stores.

The subscription video category, exhibiting a 10-year CAGR of 106%, has vaulted into prominence, up from a 2.6% total share in 2003, and currently forecast to pull ahead of digital music revenue in the 2016 – 2020 timeframe.

Video services through Coinstar’s Redbox subsidiary in partnership with Verizon are set to launch, while Comcast is poised to deploy XfinityStreampix.

Subscription digital sports packages accounted for a 1.63% share of the total market in 2012, a category that has grown at a 13% CAGR over the past ten years, but also hampered by labor disputes and work stoppages.

Entertainment (primarily Real Networks’ SuperPass video service) held a .3% share, down from a .4% comparable in the prior year.

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